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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8488S, -66.8143WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8143° West, 17.8488° North, depth 4 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/19 / 2019-12-30 01:59:00 / December 30, 2019 @ 1:59 am. Id of earthquake: pr2019364001. Event ids that are associated: pr2019364001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 21:59:00 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naranjito, Cidra, Corozal (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8143° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8488° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-30 01:59:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-30 02:34:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 136 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.142 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 257 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2019364001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019364001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019364001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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